> > 'Found' them as the voice ID gave them away as it was
> > 'bleeding'
> > over onto KEEL 710 out of Shreveport (discovered as I was
> > doing
> > checking a station check of all the pre-programmed
> stations
> > on
> > the Delco car radio as I went into work) ...
> >
>
> Well, I'd guess that it's Schum's Folly. The new
> owner/"receivorship" person must have swung a deal to mount
> a receiver on top of the existing Ethel or Howe towers, to
> at least make it APPEAR that KHSE-700 is going to actually
> be a viable property he can sell. Far as I've ever known,
> the station only existed on paper previously, and Schum lied
> to everyone about a tower already being constructed and
> being in the "testing stages" and needing some grounding
> work done. Someone apparently took him to task along the
> way, and traveled out to Wylie/Farmersville and found only
> bored cows on the mastless property. (What, Schum lie???)
>
> Even a portable rig nailed to the tower base with a
> continuous-loop tape recorder hooked to it makes 700AM worth
> more than Schum's little piece of paper did. Surely the CP
> was about to expire or something. But some idiot will come
> along with $2 mil and walk away with it. I suggest making a
> KLAK-AM to pair with the KLAK-FM move-in, since they're only
> interested in Collin County anyway. 700's proposed coverage
> was pretty pathetic.
>
What an oddball pattern they have, with that last mod of their CP!
Kind of a
V shape, with lobes West and NNE from their site
on the Collin County line east of Nevada.
FCC:
KHSE, Wylie
Map:
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